(hint: גוייִש = goyish). You can probably figure that out for yourselves. But if not- there’s the dictionary, which you can search in alphabetical order according to both Hebrew and English characters!)

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Enabling for right justification simply puts the cursor at the right. However, I have found that the letters still come out in English order, albeit at the right side of the page. It’s something I never figured out, even at Oxford when I would have to type some yiddish quotes into papers I was writing. I ended up always just doing it backwards.

Did you actually set the region to be for Hebrew, meaning you had to insert your Windows CD to download the package for right-to-left word processing? Once that is done, a new icon appears on your word toolbar that allows you to word process from right to left. But I had the same problem in the end that you did: despite having Yiddish fonts and language sets, it did not let me truly write from right to left.

It helps to have Windows XP. If you’re on 2000 or below, it probably won’t work. There’s an international setting in the Control Panel which enables or disables “complex right-to-left scripts,” and probably requires your Windows XP CD in order to actuate or install. Mine types Hebrew right to left no problem. Maybe the problem is telling the keyboard/computer that you want to type Yiddish?

Also, if you have the Resource edition of the LDS Scriptures CD-ROM, you can use their font/typescript and it will allow you to type right-to-left as well. Their font is actually more pleasing to the eye, IMO, than the ones that come with Bibleworks, for example; the Heb. font in BW sometimes forces you to type all of those nasty poetic accents as well (like the soph passuq, silluq, segolta, etc.).

There are also specific fonts you can use which will flip your keyboard around when you type them, like the Hebrew fonts at http://www.bibleworks.com or the ones at http://www.sbl-site.org. Give those a try. Again, Winders XP helps a bunch, although 2000 might also work (but I doubt it).

Jordan, I was just thinking of that yesterday myself–funny that Dave brought it up. It actually really does seem like a Yiddish word (even though it’s not, that I know of). Perhaps there is some kind of Biblical Hebrew connection. . . .

That would certainly be pretty deep–an acronymn for the name of our blog that also means something significant in Bilbical Hebrew.